For this year's conference, we wanted to focus on Neuro Occupational Therapy as it stands in 2021 and most importantly look ahead to future developments and delivery. This will be a brilliant opportunity to challenge your clinical reasoning and enhance your professional practice.

For those of us working in Neuro Occupational Therapy , we have had to completely rethink the way we are able to deliver sessions and provide the much needed help our patients require. While some of our more traditional practices may make a return as we continue to work in a less restricted environment, we may also decide to keep some of the adaptations we have made to to our practice as we continue to find a new way forward

We are delighted to be welcoming at least 10 different speakers across the two day event, all whom of which are experts in their field.

They will be covering 8 different sessions that will focus on the following:

- Vestibular Issues

- Sensory Integration in Brain Injury

- Driving

- Vocational Rehabilitation

- OT Consensus Guidelines for Functional Neurological Disorder

- Perceive Recall Plan & Perform System of Task Analysis in Neurology

- Sleep Difficulties in Neurology

The conference will be held online to allow as many of our Neurological Practice colleagues to attend as possible.

Event Timetable

9th September 2021

9:00 – 9:30: Login and Preparation Time

9:30- 9:45: Welcome and Introduction

9:45- 10:30: - Session 1 - Vestibular Disorders : Assessment , Rehabilitation and Implementation in Neuro Occupational Therapy

Kate Brown, Highly Specialist Vestibular/Balance/NF2 & Mitochondrial Physiotherapist, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

10:30-11:15: Session 2 - Sensory Integration in TBI

Pam Thompson, Senior Occupational Therapist, The Wellington Hospital

11:15-11:30: Break

11:30-12:15: Session 3 - A Pathway to Driving After Stroke

Clare Jones, Assistant Team Manager & Occupational Therapist, Regional Driving Assessment Centre

12:15-13:00: Session 4 - Vocational Rehabilitation

Ruth Tyerman & Mandy Salter, Vocational Neurological OT, Community Head Injury Service, Bush & Co Vocational Case Manager, Independent OT

13:00-13:15: Closing Remarks.

10th September 2021

9:00 – 9:45 : RCOTSSNP Annual General Meeting

9:45- 10:30: Session 5 - Occupational Therapy Consensus Recommendations for Functional Neurological Disorder

Clare Nicholson, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Neurosciences/Physical Therapies Lead FND Rehabilitation Programs, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

10:30-11:15: Session 6 - Using the PRPP system of task analysis to assess and treat cognitive deficits impacting the occupational performance of adults with brain injury

Alison Bragg, Lead Occupational Therapist, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford University NHS FT & Doris Fischer, Advanced Occupational Therapist, Walkergate Park, Centre for Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

11:15-11:30: Break

11:30-12:15: Session 7 - Quick Fire Service Development Presentations

12:15-13:00: Session 8 - Enriching Sleep Intervention with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

Rebecca Jeffcott, Specialist Occupational Therapist - Therapy Outpatients (Neuro-science), The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery

13:00-13:15: Closing Remarks

We will add further session details and speaker information as they are confirmed.

If you have any further questions about the event, please do not hesitate to email us at conference@ssnp.co.uk and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

We look forward to seeing you online in September!